Pogo Insider Wrap-Up: December 4, 2018

The Holiday Badge Marathon will start tomorrow. The blog post doesn’t mention this but it’ll be called “Holiday Dash” and it’ll be a 10-badge marathon. A Jet Set Solitaire Badge Marathon (Jet Set Joyride) will be coming later this month. To see all of the upcoming marathons at any given time, see our New & Coming Soon page.

Pogo will be changing Jet Set Solitaire so it’ll be easier to navigate. This will include putting releases into packs. See the sneak peek above.

A new limited-time Holiday Destination pack will be available for Jet Set Solitaire from December 18th through January 18th. In order to access it you’ll need to have completed the “First Trip” pack (San Francisco through Sydney).

Mahjong Safari HD will be released Thursday. First Class Solitaire HD is scheduled for December 20th. To see all of the upcoming games at any given time, see our New & Coming Soon page.

Pogo has made some adjustments in Lottso! Express HD that should make gameplay easier. In addition they have restored the original ambient casino noise sound effects to the game.

Due to the New Year’s Day holiday on January 1st, Pogo will be moving some of its regular releases to January 3rd. This includes the Big City Adventure episode, the Fairyland badge, Game of the Month (Tri-Peaks HD), and the themed Mix-n-Match monthly badges.

The Quinn’s Aquarium marathon, “Quinn’s Scuba Sprint” will start January 8th. (Update: on 12/19 Pogo changed this from January 3rd to January 8th.) To see all of the upcoming marathons at any given time, see our New & Coming Soon page.

There will be a Mini Mall release this Thursday, but the next release won’t be until January.

Leave a comment below with your thoughts and reactions to this week’s column.

Comments

A marathon in Quinns right after making it GOTM.. they really are money hungry aren’t they….
Yes we knew it was coming but so soon? Seems really fishy.. they must make hundreds on powerup purchases to want to keep throwing it at our faces.
I will gladly pass on the marathon for it and just miss other gifts next month. Not worth the hassle anymore.

I wholeheartedly agree to the “money hungry” theme! I have become so irritated, frustrated, disappointed, etc., I am getting closer to quitting POGO. It is so sad after 15 years as a member plus the time before. In the meantime I am finishing up the badges I have now and those so obviously programmed for us to loose or buy power-ups and then, if they are on my favorite list, removing them. When the time comes there are no more games that can be won or lost honestly, it’s going to be a very sad and angry that this fun game site has been ruined bye-bye

There was a new game release????????? Shows how little I’m playing on Pogo nowadays . So burned out and not worth the hassle during the holidays. I have over 8,000 badges but have lost interest, sadly.

I wonder when she says San Francisco thru Sydney, does that include the extended stay. Looking forward to the winter in progress, but I haven’t gotten thru extended stay and have been stuck for months.

Hi!
I don’t think so. San Fransisco through Sydney covers the first 20 levels. I’d think the first 20 levels is probably what they would call the “First Trip”. The Extended Stay levels begin right after that. I don’t think they’d require everyone to be further than that.
But, that’s just my opinion.

Same here I only play San Francisco level1 so boring. Off topic I have 73 Mand M albums. 14 I will never complete. filled with unwanted badges Pogo kindly have given us all requiring purchase of pu’s
which i refuse to purchase. If I cannot play game without pu’s Iwill not play them.

I haven’t heard much about pogo converting Spades, Hearts, Euchre, Pinocle, Canasta or any of the multi-player card playing games. If these games are not converted I know they will lose a great percentage of their customers.
Does anyone know if they plan to convert any of these games?
Thanks so very much,

Depending on what games the Holiday dash marathon badges are in, I might not participate, and if I do, it will be at my own pace. Way too many marathons. It would be different if they weren’t just number badges. you can’t see anyone else’s bage anyway with the hd games anyway. no way to Quinn;s of course . They will be sitting there till the cows come home. I am so disappointed how the chat layout is. pogo claims it is a way to make new friends and chat. yeah , right. Most of the games are full screen, and who wants to chat when it is on the bottom instead of the side?

My badge collection s starting to look like Bonnie and Clyde shot it up with all the holes in it because of the undone Quinn’s badges…lol…now I gotta duck and cover because here comes some more holes!
It’s really crazy how many badges they’ve thrown out there in that game since it’s release.

Question?
I see this line in the blog: “Mix n Match Monthly Pack will start on January 3”
I assume this means that Mix and Match badges will be released once a month starting in January (?)
Is that what you all infer from this, or was there information posted about this already that I didn’t see or possibly that I just don’t remember seeing.
Thanks in advance. 🙂

Oh, I see my mistake now. I didn’t read it as connected to the other delayed releases because of how New Year’s Day falls. Clearly, it was mentioned in with those delays.
Chalk it up to an overloaded brain circuit failure.

cant another game be picked besides quinn, please pogo choose something else. alot of us dont like it and yes i know alot of us do. i for one DO NOT LIKE quinns. but thanks anyway, that will be more quinns sitting in albums.

That is good news! Still struggling with getting to level 4 a couple more times before I try for that 11,000 points badge.

It took me a while to remember how to finish level 5 in the java version. I just remember getting stuck in the loop of smiley faces for an hour, so I am glad you can hit “New Game” to end it. Thank you Suz!

My trick was always to complete just one side going down. Remember to get the numbers to the left after you complete a bingo to double your scratch off score. My reason for doing this vs. trying to get the super lottso is because you get more chances to extra balls. Then after level 4 I try to complete the whole board before scratching. That’s when you get the smiley face that sends you into loop after loop.

I wish I had saved my STATs for java, Julia as I am pretty sure I have gotten over 20 thousand in one game.

I don’t understand why they don’t keep every aspect of a converted game, including difficulty. Changing the requirements to advance in rank in the new HD games just makes no sense. They are boring enough when you don’t get tokens.
One more month and I’m done anyway. As I earned my final rank badge in Mahjong Safari, I finally reached 7,000 badges. I’ve let all marathons go in the past 6 weeks and haven’t missed them a bit.

Thank Goodness. I spent two weeks trying to win that darn badge and gave up. Now will have to reactivate it and try again now that it appears possible to get past level five and earn 11,000 points in the game. In one attempt, I had a Super Lottso board that was all the number “2” and it never gave me a single one in 48 balls. It’s the only badge I’ve never been able to earn in the allotted time, so am keeping my fingers crossed that the second time around will work. Thanks for letting me know, Suz!

The following is a copy and paste from the latest blog about Mahjong Safari HD:

Pogo Llama: Are there any Power-Ups in the game?

Pogo Clement: Yes, there are! We’re keeping the same power-ups as the classic title: Shuffle, Long Line, and Hint. They work exactly the same way as they used to be in the classic title.

My question: Do you think Pogo will charge for these power-ups? Even though Clement says they work the same, he doesn’t mention if they will remain free.
Has there been an instance where Pogo upgraded a game to HD that had free power-ups and the HD version charged for them?

I know any answers will be speculation, but I’m curious as to what any thoughts are.

What games are “more”?
I have been ranking out (or trying too) the games that are going HTML and so I wish she could specify what games are those, maybe I have all ranks already but maybe not and in this case I probably have time to earn the last ranks.
Only thing I ask for is that she tell what games are included in “more”

And ROFL about the comments closed yet again!
Fear has wings or something like this the saying goes lol

Any idea if we will be able to access the Holiday Destination pack in Jet Set Solitaire if we only have the “coach” badges for San Francisco through Sydney? Or will we have to have both—the “coach” and the ‘world class” badges?

Why doesn’t the quinn’s aquarium have atleast a # on the left side saying how many more matches you have left ? It sure would help our poor eye balls .
It would help if they did . A lot of my friends don’t bother playing it because of that .

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